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SUBMITTER: Roeselers G
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3176511 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Roeselers Guus G Mittge Erika K EK Stephens W Zac WZ Parichy David M DM Cavanaugh Colleen M CM Guillemin Karen K Rawls John F JF
The ISME journal 20110407 10
Experimental analysis of gut microbial communities and their interactions with vertebrate hosts is conducted predominantly in domesticated animals that have been maintained in laboratory facilities for many generations. These animal models are useful for studying coevolved relationships between host and microbiota only if the microbial communities that occur in animals in lab facilities are representative of those that occur in nature. We performed 16S rRNA gene sequence-based comparisons of gut ...[more]